The tick on My Ancestors page

Peter, ever since you made those suggestions, the red SEARCHING icon has appeared as soon as I click the blue SEARCH button so everything is back to 'normal'. I thought that effect only happened when talking to a medical doctor or car mechanic! Have you started a new career?

I have made several attempts at reproducing the 'error' situation and consistently get 35 secs elapsed for searching and a further 30 secs or more (up to 1 min!) for all adverts to get displayed and final completion.

 

It would seem that the return to 'normal' with display of the red SEARCHING icon was a flash in the pan. I have now added members of several more households and repeated the search with NO red display at all but everything else performing as expected and taking similar lengths of time as before.

Until Peter tells me otherwise, I am assuming that the display of the red icon is performed by local processing on my system rather than being sent from the LC server. In that case I am at a loss as to the reason for failure to display. I am not aware of any changes locally which might have brought this about.

Please note . . . I am NOT complaining, just curious. The search is working and I have received a new match, unfortunately not of a blood relative of mine.

 

This - or something very similar - has just happened to me. I hadn't been adding any new entries but was doing a periodic check from my 'My Ancestors' page.

The My Ancestors page was being a bit slower than usual to load and I clicked on Search before it had finished loading. The normal red searching icon didn't appear but everything else worked as expected. When I clicked on search again I got the red searching icon as normal.

I closed my browser and did exactly the same again a few minutes later, and the same happened. I suspect it may have been because I had clicked on search before the page had finished loading.

 

Agreed. However, I thought I would post my experience in case it helps satisfy Bryman's curiosity.

 

Back to the original post from Webwiz in this discussion topic . . .

I am now just as confused with the colours of ticks. Although most adhere to the convention described in the page help, there are several instances which differ. I have some which are blue with a relationship shown as "Marriage", while others are grey with a relationship of "Blood relative".

1. What am I not understanding about this display?
2. Do any other members have similar occurrences, or am I the only one out of step (yet again)?

 

For what it is worth, I get the red searching as good as instantaneous always so it has nothing to do with distance or lag as my first internet link is 38K Km, approximately the circumference of the earth, so twice the distance from the server to Bryman, of course as I use a satellite internet it is only one node and the number of nodes may make a difference. I have not noticed any speed difference between subscribing or not, but the few seconds wait is all the excitement I can cope with in a day.

 

Thank you Peter. I had misunderstood the explanation on the page help.

 

Not knowing what a ping test is, I Googled it and apparently Pingtest.net is soon to be shut down.

 

I think it is more a 'feature' of the site/address that you are trying to ping. Many sites block incoming pings as part of their network security.
When I entered "ping lostcousins.com" nothing was returned, ie the site blocked the four 32 byte messages.

I performed a ping test to a couple of arabian horse web sites that I had set up in UK before leaving and which do not have any blocking in place.
The results were average latency of somewhere between 350ms and 400ms, which is a bit slow. Latency of less than 100ms is more normal.

When I pinged bbc.co.uk, the latency was about 330ms. I have not tried to determine how many nodes such messages were sent through but it does indicate that communication between NZ and UK is a bit slower (as expected) than purely within UK.

Anyone wishing to check for themselves should just enter the ping request at the Cmd line within Windows.

 

Agreed. But is the difference significant for LC processing? I would suggest that any program using the internet should not be that intolerant.

 

My ping od gro.gov.uk was what I expected 4981ms, this is fairly typical for satellite connections, which is why I cannot play any real time onlines games, not that I have desire to play games, life is to busy with important stuff.

 

I'm located in the Antipodes and the search function operates as intended.